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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicsto accept fraudulent applications for subsidies and then pay out the EU funds to the claimants. According... relations with Libya and the submission of two note verbale by the Tripoli-based government... deems not be in line with international law. In the notes, Libya claims that Greece’s maritime agreement
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Newsletter 235 -17/01/2020
was 2.82 billion, municipalities spent 1.12 billion, social funds 166 million and 859 billion... to 50 extra MPs. According to the proposal, if the winning party passes the 25 percent threshold
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ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicseuros per year are expected to pay 11 to 23 euros less in tax per month as a result of the reduced... a meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos... representation system that will award a bonus to the winning party. Unlike the existing system, which
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraat the hot spots. Despite its economic difficulties, Greece has also agreed to pay its share (25.1... refugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting last week was for a large refugee
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SYRIZA calls for vote of no confidence, as PM's apology over storm chaos fails to chime
PoliticsGreek Politicson a northbound intercity train after a crash. Both companies agreed to pay compensation to those affected, while...’ Protection and Interior. Earlier this week, the party joked in an announcement that dismissing all... lead for ND, however this is the most adverse finding for SYRIZA in some time, prompting the party
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Tsipras and SYRIZA: More old than new
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/21/tsipras_1000_myrto_2111-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Agora, Tsipras’s path seems to have been set: after talking a good game to get elected, he will pay only lip... as alternate interior minister and later as labour minister, from where he could draft legislation... elections. His victory at the ballot box, though, does not mean that it can yet be deemed a winning strategy
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Ankara tension tops govt agenda, overshadowing social dividend and primary residences
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe spat with Turkey over its signing of an agreement with Libya regarding the delimitation... is in control of all of Libya, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reportedly told Turkish President..., as well as the articles of the Lausanne Peace Treaty which sentenced Greece to pay compensation
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Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration
PoliticsForeign Policyto the US president, who seems to not pay attention to international law, he insisted that in any... with the Government of National Accord (GNA) of Libya in November 2019. He clarified that the project is a European... of 2023, Turkey would automatically and ceremoniously withdraw from the Turkey-Libya memorandum. We
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat this is happening against the backdrop of the bailout deliberations where, again, Greece’s... Mouzalas went into an informal meeting of European Union interior ministers on Monday on the back
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicscaused by the blaze in Evros has prompted the government to send a team of ministers, led by Interior Minister Makis Voridis, to Evros on Monday. The officials travel to the region against a backdrop
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